We were in LA today seeing Mia's Orthopaedist. He's been monitoring her feet and hips. She had an xray of her hips done and there hasn't been any change since the last one a year ago. Basically her bones aren't completely in the sockets because her muscles are weak. His hope is that as she gets stronger, the muscles will pull in the bone appropriately. If that doesn't happen, then there is a potential for surgery down the road to correct it. We are just going to wait and see. Same with her feet, as she gets stronger, the hope is that their positioning will self correct. Again, we just have to wait and see.

Lisa's friend Rachel (from England) was in LA for work and so after our visit we had lunch with her. It was really nice to catch up on our short visit.

So we've had quite a busy week. Mia is now going to school 4 days a week, so our Monday morning therapies are now Wednesday afternoon. It keeps us hopping since there isn't alot of down time. But we've seen such good improvement that we want to push her as much as is realistic. On Tuesday at horse therapy, they commented how she's moving her tongue more when she tries to say "n", which is great! We continue to get excited as she makes more progress with speech. I love how she will now sign some things and say the word at the same time. We plan on keeping up with the signs too because it would be so neat for her to have that as she gets older.

Calvin will now push up on his tummy and he can get out of being on his tummy on his own now. He can almost sit unassisted, he loves to play with toys while someone helps him sit. I noticed he's getting another tooth, on the bottom, so he gnaws on anything he can get his hands on.

Happy Half Birthday Calvin!

Six months today! Oh my! Calvin weighed in at 15 pounds 12 ounces, he's officially twice his birth weight. He just keeps getting bigger. Calvin has also tried his first food this past week. Some banana and a "surf board" rice cracker. The banana gave him a "surprised" look when he tasted it...the rice cracker was a big hit. He likes to gnaw on that. I had read somewhere about the idea of waiting until a child was "ready" for food and then giving them whole foods rather than mush, I liked that concept, so we decided to give it a try. The point is that this is a time for them to explore food and that they are still getting their nourishment from breast milk or formula. It's been fun to watch him get to eat.



Mia has shown quite the interest in musical instruments since birth really, but more recently has started strumming imaginary guitars and playing imaginary violins...it's adorable. The amazing thing is she'll usually pick the correct instrument type for whatever music is playing. So, we got Mia a red ukulele, we call it a guitar...she loves it. Here's a picture of her with it.

Oh week, where did you go? Time seems to be speeding up lately, funny how that happens when you get older.

Mia's cough is back. We started her on the breathing treatments again last night and we'll keep doing them. I plan on calling her pediatrician on Tuesday and getting some info on what they think. We were off the breathing treatments for 1 week and now her cough is back, so I'm not sure what that means or how we should approach it.

We saw Mia's GI doctor this past week and he's concerned because she stopped gaining weight. So, we are keeping a food journal and adding the cream back into her milk. He also wants to run some tests to see how much she recognizes sensation for stooling, that's as nice as I could think of saying it. One of our big fears is that she won't be able to manage her bowel movements, so please be praying for us as we find more answers.

Mia's continues to speak more, Praise God! Now we are understanding how things are going to get more difficult before it gets easier as she gets frustrated when we don't understand what she's saying. Continue to pray for improved speech for our little girl.

Happy Valentine's Day!